Quotes By Swami Vivekananda

The real work is in the practice.

Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds.

This rascal ego must be obliterated.

You must all pay attention to your health first.

As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.

Everything that has form must have a beginning and an end.

If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.

Be strong! Don't talk of ghosts and devils.

May the shadow of the Almighty ever rest on all those you love.

He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.

Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.

Holy meditation helps to burn out all mental impurities.

By practice men can bring even the heart under control, until it will just beat at will, slowly, or quickly, or almost stop. Nearly every part of the body can be brought under control.

There is salvation only for the brave.

Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.

Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.

This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.

The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.

Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

The happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves.